Taking Flight

I invite you to pause for a moment and take some time for some contemplative play.

Start by letting this image fill your mind as you focus on your breath and letting yourself slow down into this time and this space.  Letting your breath and this picture be all that you attend to right now.

How do you want to take flight?

Consider these questions also:

What do you see?
What colors stand out to you? Why?
What does your imagination do with this picture?
What words come to mind?
What favorite quotes from your favorite spiritual literature come to mind?


I invite you to join in conversation with me in the comments below what has come of your contemplative play time today.

Constant Connections

God your Holy Spirit
Spans the heavens and
plumbs the depths.

You send the Spirit forth to
every corner, nook and cranny;
Connecting you to all of your creation.

It is because of your Holy Spirit
that nothing is ever
truly alone.

What a comfort this connection
of Spirit to everything
and everything to You.

It means I am constantly connected
to Your beloved love and care and guidance;
Even when I may feel far away.

It means I am never truly alone.
And somedays I really need
to cling to that hope and good news.

Thank you God for this connection of
beloved, constant presence.

AMEN

Safe Rest

I invite you to pause for a moment and take some time for some contemplative play.

Start by letting this image fill your mind as you focus on your breath and letting yourself slow down into this time and this space.  Letting your breath and this picture be all that you attend to right now.

Who do you go to to find rest and comfort? How will you seek out this rest and comfort consistently this year?

Consider these questions also:

What do you see?
What colors stand out to you? Why?
What does your imagination do with this picture?
What words come to mind?
What favorite quotes from your favorite spiritual literature come to mind?


I invite you to join in conversation with me in the comments below what has come of your contemplative play time today.

Journeying in Holy Time

God, You are wondrous.
Your ways mysterious to
my human understanding.

As I look into this New Year,
to You it is yet only
another moment
in Your continuing engagement
of Creation.

You do not see time in the way I do.
That fact is important for me
 to remember
as I seek to engage this journey
of the New Year.

If I am intent on journeying
in Your way,
The way of Christ,
The way of the Spirit,
I must remember that
what you call me to
will be completed in Your time.

So if my human goals and intentions
clearly identified as part
of Your calling to me
are not completed in a human calendar year,
May I not be discouraged.

Instead may I remember Your
Holy Time is mysterious and
I have covenanted to journey
in the way of Holy Time.

Knowing that the good work of
You, Christ and Spirit
will be completed all in
Holy Time.

I am only to journey, act and work
In Faith.

AMEN.

New Growth

I invite you to pause for a moment and take some time for some contemplative play.

Start by letting this image fill your mind as you focus on your breath and letting yourself slow down into this time and this space.  Letting your breath and this picture be all that you attend to right now.

What kind of new growth do you want to achieve this year? 

Consider these questions also:

What do you see?
What colors stand out to you? Why?
What does your imagination do with this picture?
What words come to mind?
What favorite quotes from your favorite spiritual literature come to mind?


I invite you to join in conversation with me in the comments below what has come of your contemplative play time today.